– 34 – N e w A c q u i s i t i o n s First Revised And Expanded Edition Of Hemingway’s In Our Time, Containing The First Printing Of “On The Quai At Smyrna”, In Scarce Original Dust Jacket 39. HEMINGWAY, Ernest. In Our Time. New York, 1930. Octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $7000. First revised and expanded edition of In Our Time, first Scribner’s edition of the first of Hemingway’s books published in the United States, newly featuring his “Introduction by the Author” (later retitled as “On the Quai at Smyrna”), along with revisions to two short stories, in rarely found dust jacket with the dramatic gold and black printed design by Cleonike. This revised and expanded 1930 edition of Hemingway’s In Our Time is the first to include his “Introduction,” which is the first printing of his story later retitled, “On the Quai at Smyra.” In addition, this important edition includes his revisions to “A Very Short Story” and “Mr. and Mrs. Eliot.” This superb collection of stories presented a number of Hemingway’s finest short pieces to the American public, including “Indian Camp,” “The Battler,” “The Three Day Blow,” and both parts of “Big Two-Hearted River.” In 1924 Three Mountains Press in Paris published the similarly titled in our time in an edition of only 170 copies; that much-shorter work contained only the vignettes that are here called “Chapters” and interspersed among the 15 longer stories collected here for the first time. Second American edition overall: preceded by the Boni & Liveright 1925 edition, 1926 London first edition. On acquiring the plates, bound stock and reprint rights, Scribner’s issued this revised and expanded edition in 1930. With original blue dust jacket, printed gold and black, design by Cleonike. Hemingway’s “On the Quai at Smyrna” would not be printed again until its inclusion in The Fifth Column and the First Forty-nine Stories (1938). Book near-fine, dust jacket with expert restoration to extremities. “Man Is Not Made For Defeat” 40. HEMINGWAY, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. New York, 1952. Octavo, original blue cloth, dust jacket. $3900. First edition of Hemingway’s masterful tale of “a fishing adventure… as close to tragedy as fishing may be” (New York Times), in firstissue dust jacket. William Faulkner called the novel Hemingway’s best: “Time may show it to be the best single piece of any of us. I mean his and my contemporaries” (Baker, 593-94). With Scribner “A” beneath copyright notice. First-issue dust jacket, with no mention of the Nobel Prize. Book fine; lightest edge-wear, faint toning to spine of bright near-fine dust jacket.
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